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Best Memory Loss Poems

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An Analogy of Memory Loss
It's a bit like...
you are in a bathroom
filling a hot tub,
slowly the steam 
covers the mirror...
and the mirror loses it's reflection;
that loss of reflection,
is my...

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Categories: memory loss, analogy, fear,
Form: Blank verse



21st Century Indian
It's ok that I'm Native American:
If I am attractive and half naked,
If I am uneducated,
If I speak in broken English,
And sing Christian songs.

It's ok that...

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Categories: memory loss, culture, discrimination, how i
Form: Free verse
Dreams Are Dreams
Moment a desire arises 
we become joyous
Mind starts ruminating
We are hooked on to it

What began as a mere thought
Now controls our mind, actions
Mind thinks about...

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Categories: memory loss, 10th grade, desire,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Growing Old Can Cause
Will old age cause any of these?

a)  Tresses to become gray or white
b)  Inability to sleep at night
c)  Just when sleep finally...

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Categories: memory loss, age,
Form: List
Search For the Hidden Spark
The old man stood;elbows resting on the old stone wall
Wistfully he gazed over the snow laden field,
Watching the sheep nibble on bales of hay,
He thought...

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Categories: memory loss, age, allegory, imagery, loss,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Short Term Memory
My brain crushed with something over and all,
Maybe that’s it my memory loss, oh my God,
Misplaced or bouncing daily my mistake,
Extremely apologized with everyone,
Embarrassed with...

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Categories: memory loss, absence, computer, confusion, desire,
Form: Verse
Heart of Stone
Heart Of Stone

What a heart wrenching piece of news..
In today’s spread of daily news…
Boldly headlined ‘Mom: No Forgiveness”
It was about filial hurt and devastated dreams....

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Categories: memory loss, anger, betrayal, daughter, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Drunken Pen
The drunken pen knows no boundaries, flowing from one page to the next, one idea to the next never stopping too long in one place....

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory loss, introspection, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Doors: Psycho-History 101
Doors: Psycho-history 101
             by Odin Roark

Doors absorb history
Whether by knocks
Slams
Shuts
Or slides
Doors have felt...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory loss, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Is Humor Sensed
Love wants nothing to do
with the everyday affairs of men.
Love's only intention
is to catch the lover!

Rumi

God wants nothing to do
with the routine affairs of men,
God's...

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Categories: memory loss, confusion, god, humor, identity,
Form: Free verse
Multiple Sclerosis
Memory Loss
Urinary problems
Losing vision
Thinking difficulties
Individual weakness
Painful moments
Losing balance
Extreme fatigue

Stress induced
Coordination problems
Life altering
Emotional rollercoaster
Reduced strength
Over reacting
Smell sensitivity
Irritable feelings
Suffering daily...

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Categories: memory loss, caregiving, confusion, dedication, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Absent
We promised to link our time eternal,
and yet, in a flash, he became drained
by some incurable strain of memory loss;
forgetting the warm love that knitted...

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Categories: memory loss, lost, memory,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fall Memories
Gray squirrels- 
hide caches 'til winter
memory loss--sniff

©2010 Audrey Carey...

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Categories: memory loss, animals, nature
Form: Haiku
Epilogue To Premature Cremation
Clandestine meeting between
the Orvatech Corp. and the Celestial Military Command
Date: 04.24.2258


General Avar, the High General: The third trial test run has been successfully
concluded. What are...

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Categories: memory loss, horror, science fiction, soldier,
Form: Narrative
Denouement
Her  m a d n e s s  was the result of an unfortunate series of events. The epilogue came to a halt...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory loss, anxiety, sick,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things